Day Nine

No Crown Bakery for breakfast today – a quick piece of toast with peanut butter and away we went to Priscilla Street to teach the children – Connie and Cindy downstairs with the small children first and then Mitch and I stay upstairs with the older children. Mitch spends this time talking with Theophilus about the work of the Lord in S L and I spend the few minutes in teaching the older children facts about the Bible. So far we have taught them about 12 writers of the Bible and what they did such as tentmaking – fishing, etc. They are so smart and so quick to learn. Also, we have taught them how to say “I love you” by touching your eye – crossing your arms across the chest and pointing at the individual or individuals you are talking with. They have taught this to the older members of the congregation in the evenings. Connie and Cindy are teaching kids but the kids are teaching them new songs also. It is great! The teaching at the hall was the best we have been able to do on this trip. The crown was very receptive with several non-members of the church attending and Mitch was on his game – I just tried to stay out of the way. We taught short lessons that they could remember and we taught several of them so they were able to learn many things in short and quick lessons. We then had a very good question and answer period – one older lady who is a non-member asked some great questions on the Holy Spirit and Solomon who obeyed the gospel last week (the one who saw our DVD’s) is asking some really good questions – he wants to learn so fast and quick – this is really encouraging to all. We then made a quick visit to Crown Bakery for our “lupper” and then to Mono Prix the store for some items for us and the church – we purchased them grape juice – it is so expensive for them yet they do not complain. We just wanted to help – they are so appreciative. Then a quick stop at the hotel to catch our breath and then on to the teaching for the evening sessions at Priscilla Street. Mitch taught tonight about the congregation at Ephesus and then his second lesson was on the work of the church. I followed with both parts of a lesson from an old bedsheet chart about the “Apostacy, Reformation and Restoration”. The audience was very attentive for the three hour session. We did have a surprise guest – a reverend in the Pentecostal church who is the national chaplain for the opposing political party running against the incumbent president. He stayed all the way until we got into the instrumental music question – that was about all he could take. After the studies a young lady came and asked Mitch for some passages to help her teach a Seventh Day Adventist friend. Mitch will take her some scriptures to assist her. During the study a young lady came forward – she is the daughter of one of the members at Priscilla Street – she wanted to be baptized – our new sister in Christ – Cecilia French. This is the sixth baptism and all of them have great potential to grow – all of them except Solomon had ties with members at Priscilla Street – Solomon found us through the DVD’s – he has been to every service since obeying the gospel and has taken so many notes of the lessons it is almost mind boggling. Tomorrow – a full day again – three hour study on the elders with the whole congregation – then the break out men and women classes. We are all tired – I can honestly say that this team is using all the energy they can “muster” each day and at night they are well spent. God is good! All the time! Today was a special blessing from Him!